Word: strains
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...heart of the problem is overcrowding, which has put a strain on the traffic-control system and has stretched thin the airline industry's corps of experienced pilots and mechanics. While three years ago the traffic-control system rarely handled more than 100,000 flights of commercial and private aircraft a day, the average daily volume now exceeds 140,000. Airline % companies point out that the air-traffic-control centers have suffered from a manpower shortage ever since President Reagan's firing of 11,400 striking controllers in 1981. Last week the National Transportation Safety Board said it had found...
North briefly left Quantico in 1973 to supervise jungle training in Okinawa. Once again, he never let up, working long hours and seven-day weeks. His wife was not with him, and toward the end of his tour, the strain seemed to trigger a depression. He voluntarily checked himself into Bethesda Naval Hospital for mental exhaustion and stayed three weeks. North has never spoken of the experience, and it was subsequently expunged from his record. When he was released, he was pronounced "fit for duty." North was helped through this trying period in his marriage by the works...
Ever since the three-year conflict that left more than 1 million Koreans , and Americans dead, every stress and strain in relations between North and South has carried the possibility of another conflagration. The latest tensions surround North Korea's ongoing construction of a huge dam just north of the 151-mile Demilitarized Zone. South Koreans are convinced that, once completed, the dam will pose a major danger to Seoul. They fear that it will either collapse because of poor workmanship or, in a darker view, be deliberately burst by the Communists, perhaps as a prelude to invasion...
...Gallo revealed that he and his co-workers had discovered in ten Nigerian patients a new strain related to the AIDS virus. Together with an earlier discovery by French scientists of a second AIDS virus in West Africa, which is now being found in Europe and Brazil, this increases the family of related AIDS viruses. The existence of multiple strains further complicates the development of blood tests and vaccines for AIDS. Gallo insisted, however, that "we shouldn't panic because it is the original AIDS virus that is causing the epidemic...
McFarlane's testimony last week conveyed a far different moral lesson: how easily America as a nation has come to accept public hypocrisy. With his uninflected answers and his stolid manner, his face puffy from strain and fatigue, McFarlane radiated the melancholy of moral responsibility. All his enemies were within, as a good soldier tried to square his own misguided conduct with internal standards of honor and integrity. In the depths of his soul, McFarlane had been tested and found wanting, and it was that shame he could not help conveying...